Mr. Stevens, prior to this thread, the only Webcomic I had read regularly was La Muse. Now, assuming future access to this thread isn't shut down once your residency is up, I will check out some of the other Webcomics previous posters have recommended.

Mr. Stevens, your existance in the webcomic community has been one of the reasons I've continued reading comics online and offline. It's heartening to know that someone who makes something that looks so simple at first can stick it out for so long in a community that seems to vaporise at a moment's notice. If you're still around, I have a question for you. What would you say were the most influential webcomics of the online boom? And what are/were their strengths?

Sorry to wait so long to post something non-bacon related, but you know. Work....n...stuff.

Ben- what would you consider the "online boom" for comics? I think we're in the midst of the real boom now.

The oldest strips are picking up mainstream audiences, new strips are popping out of nowhere and outgrowing the old ones (very much unlike how comic books work) and there's already an entire generation of adults who have never read comic strips on paper. I think thing are gonna get VERY interesting in about five years. We just need better wireless data access and higher-resolution handhelds.

I guess boom is kind of an inaccurate term. In my head comics online exploded around the same time that MEGATOKYO began to draw a more mainstream audience and Scott McCloud put out REINVENTING COMICS. But that could have just been my own little mind going pop. How about I just change my question to who was your biggest influence as a digital artist when you began making Diesel Sweeties?

Diesel Sweeties makes me laugh so hard and loud it disturbs people who work near me and share my living enviornment.

Thank you for this.

Less Cowbell is now a means of killing the quote-duels that spawn in my office and amonst friends. Shaming people by yelling "LESS COWBELL" is a powerful thing.

I also make use of a "CRUSH THE COOK!" apron while making many kinds of pork-based meals. Including, yes, bacon.

I offer you, the finest bacon product an 0.13 image search on google can yield as a little bit of a thank you.

In addition, speaking of the reptoids and the greys, I offer this story.

Back in the early 90's there was a Chicago Radio host named Bob Lassiter. He was famous for giving long, rambling monologues when people refused to call in an "behave" on the phones. One afternoon I listened, rapt with attention, while Bob outlined in exacting detail just how the reptoids and grey's controlled the media, the governments of earth and planned on using mankind as fodder in an intergalactic war. He did this with no commercial breaks, few pauses and a completely neutral tone of voice. He spoke, perhaps read, for nearly an hour and then changed subject and refused to address the conspiracy, dumping any callers who tried to bring it up.

I'm a rational human being, an adult with a college education and a good steady job. I have a loving girlfriend, a cat and pay my taxes and bills on time.

In the back go my head, I believe that reptilians and grey aliens run us like a toy train set and that Bob Lassiter was warning us all.

Thanks again for the fantastic comics, buttons, shirts, art, reptoids.

Having grabbed an iPhone about two weeks after launch, the first thing I did was check out my own stuff. It reads better than on most other handhelds, but it's not a perfect experience.

I have a theory that when Apple starts allowing third party programs to run on the iPhone, selling a graphic novel as an application would be an awesome way to create great reading experiences for comics fans.